1522                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 842

whole. The planning body shall submit its written recommendation
with respect to the proposed urban renewal plan to the municipality
within sixty days after receipt of the plan of review; upon receipt of
the recommendations of the planning body or, if no recommendations
are received within said sixty days, then without such recommenda-
tions, the municipality may proceed with a public hearing on the
proposed urban renewal project. The municipality shall hold a public
hearing on an urban renewal project after public notice thereof by
publication in a newspaper having a general circulation within the
corporate limits of the municipality. The notice shall describe the
time, date, place and purpose of the hearing, shall generally identify
the urban renewal area covered by the plan, and shall outline the
general scope of the urban renewal project under consideration.
Following such hearing, the municipality may approve an urban re-
newal project and the plan therefor if it finds that: (1) a feasible
method exists for the location of any families who will be displaced
from the urban renewal area in decent, safe and sanitary dwelling
accommodations within their means and without undue hardship to
such families; (2) the urban renewal plan substantially conforms
to the master plan of the municipality as a whole; and (3) the urban
renewal plan will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the
sound needs of the municipality as a whole, for the rehabilitation or
redevelopment of the urban renewal area by private enterprise.

An urban renewal plan may be modified at any time, provided that
if modified after the lease or sale of property in the urban renewal
project area, the modification may be conditioned upon such approval
of the owner, lessee or successor in interest as the municipality may
deem advisable and in any event shall be subject to such rights at
law or in equity as a lessee or purchaser, or his successor or successors
in interest, may be entitled to assert. Where the proposed modifica-
tion will substantially change the urban renewal plan as previously
approved by the municipality, the modification shall be formally ap-
proved by the municipality, as in the case of an original plan.

Upon the approval by the municipality of an urban renewal plan
or of any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall be
deemed to be in full force and effect for the respective urban renewal
area and the municipality may then cause such plan or modification
to be carried out in accordance with its terms.

Section 422-F. Disposal of Property in Urban Renewal Area.

(a) The municipality may sell, lease or otherwise transfer any
property or any interest therein acquired by it for an urban renewal
project, for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, educa-
tional or other uses or for public use, or may retain such property
or interest for public use, in accordance with the urban renewal
plan, subject to such covenants, conditions and restrictions, includ-
ing covenants running with the land, as it may deem to be necessary
or desirable to assist in preventing the development or spread of
future slums or blighted areas or to otherwise carry out the pur-
poses of this Article XII-A. The purchasers or lessees and their suc-
cessors and assigns shall be obligated to devote such property only
to the uses specified in the urban renewal plan, and may be obligated
to comply with such other requirements as the municipality may
determine to be in the public interest, including THE TYPE AND